Field Journal Fix-Up

✒️ Handwriting Transcription Guides

• National Archives Tips for reading Historic Documents
• Now I Know My (19th Century) ABCs
• Paleography: Interpreting Handwriting in Genealogical Research
• Reed College Study Guide: Colonial American Handwriting

🍃 Plant and 🍄 Fungus Name Guides

• Index Fungorum
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
• Plants of the World Online
• World Flora Online Plant List

🐦 Bird Name Guides

• American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist
• IOC World Bird List

📔 Other Useful Guides

• Apothecaries' symbols commonly found in medical recipes
• Apothecaries' system Wikipedia article
• Fresh-water rhizopods of North America by Joseph Leidy - helpful for working with Joseph Leidy's notebooks
• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

📚 Interesting Reads

• First Forays into Rev City and Automatic Transcription
• Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems?
• "Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
• On the Hidden Mystery of OCR in Large Multimodal Models
• The Power of Community Science: How Smithsonian Volunpeers Transform Scientific Field Notes
• Revisiting the Role of Language Priors in Vision-Language Models
• Six Lessons from Our First Crowdsourcing Project in the Digital Humanities